Social Media Mocks Trump's Wimpy Excuse For Why He Hated Playing Football
Donald Trump is reportedly trying to earn votes by emphasizing his masculinity, but he’s being mocked as a wimp after admitting the reason he didn’t like playing football as a kid.
During an appearance on the “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast on Tuesday, the former president took great pains to explain why he wasn’t fond of playing football ― and threw in a few racist dog whistles while doing so.
“I didn’t like [football],” Trump said. “I played tight ... tight end. I could catch the ball good, but I didn’t particularly like having some guy who was lifting weights all day long and came from a bad neighborhood and he sees me ... they were tackling hard.”
You can hear him below starting at the 1:54:40 mark.
Considering conservative surrogates like Charlie Kirk are claiming “you’re not a man” unless you vote for Trump, many people on social media were amused to hear about the former president’s fear of being tackled.
Trump said he tried to play TE in high school but he quit because he liked catching the ball but didn’t like being tackled. Maybe if they just let him score every time like Putin in hockey he wouldn’t have quit. https://t.co/bOWi1ygFVG
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 15, 2024
“Tie… tight end.” Trump’s lying.
He never played football. He went to boarding school at the New York Military Academy when he was 13. It doesn’t have a football team. It only has 20 students per grade. The tell was when he hesitated about what position he played. https://t.co/V3lRFaX74ppic.twitter.com/zDX4uK1CJG— Obama’s Portrait 🏇🏾💙 (@2016Primary) October 15, 2024
He has no concept of team sports. None. So he quit football and played golf.
Competition with a scoreboard and rules terrifies him. No wonder he calls everything rigged. Dude got tackled once and bailed. Hahahahahahaha— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 15, 2024
Tim Walz is the perfect foil to this clown
— Spencer Dirrig 🥥🇺🇸 (@SpencerDirrig) October 15, 2024
Trump is pathetic. Unless you are a small teen-ager, high school football in much of America is a rite of passage, like initiation ceremonies in other cultures. Trump confesses here that he punked out, ( and surely his high school didn't run pro-set offenses with "tight ends.")
— James North (@jamesnorth7) October 15, 2024
"Trump’s take on football reveals more about his character than the game itself. It’s a striking reflection of his reluctance to face challenges, both on and off the field."
— Democratic Path 🌐 (@uservago123) October 15, 2024
Some also pointed out the hidden meaning behind Trump’s use of the words “bad neighborhood.”
So Trump didn’t like playing football cause he wasn’t good, was too overweight to be a receiver, and was too racist to play against black people that could beat him. https://t.co/0WGhH0Kc1F
— Ian Hest 🟦 (@IanHest) October 15, 2024
Trunp didn't like playing football because it might have involved getting touched by Black people https://t.co/EguwDBwaTR
— 🕷Dante Atkins🕷 (@DanteAtkins) October 15, 2024
He didn’t like poor African American kids touching his white privilege. pic.twitter.com/Zz7iRH2vfO
— Jules Morgan 🧸 (@glamelegance) October 15, 2024
The racist dog whistle is now a bullhorn.
— MaTT FLaMMaBLe (@MaTTFLaMMaBLe) October 15, 2024
Trump tells those two morons on @BussinWTB that he didn’t like playing football because he didn’t want to get tackled by "some guy…from a bad neighborhood"
aka…a Black guy pic.twitter.com/zyoZV8UXf2— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) October 15, 2024
